Rand Paul, Marjorie Taylor Greene suspended from social media for COVID disinfo
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/08/rand-paul-marjorie-taylor-greene-suspended-from-social-media-for-covid-disinfo/
Two lawmakers have received temporary account suspensions from YouTube and Twitter over their repeated posting of COVID-19 disinformation, yet videos from both espousing similar disinformation remain on Facebook.
On Tuesday, YouTube removed a video posted by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) in which he falsely claimed that masks were not effective in preventing the spread of COVID-19. Also yesterday, Twitter suspended Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) for one week after she falsely claimed that neither vaccines nor masks reduce the spread of COVID. Both masks and vaccines do work, in fact, and there’s ample evidence that wearing them slows the spread of the disease.